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w. E. BAILEY. GARDEN TOOL APFLICATIQN FILED JULY 30,1918- Patented Apr.8, 1919.

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Application filed July so, 1918. Serial No 247,363.

To all whom it may concern: I r I Be it known that I, WILLIAM EiliunnBAI- LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in thecounty ofFranklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Garden-Tools, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention v pertains to a new an original style or kind of gardentool adapted in the preparation-o the soil for seed and plants and inthe subsequent cultivation of the arden as hereinafter fully describedand particularly set forth in the claim. V In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 is a planfview of-the tool or implementv and Fig. '2 is a side'oredge view thereof. Fig. 3 is a bottom view and Fig. at a frontelevation shown as in cultivating relations with a row of plants..-;Fig; 5 shows the tool as it is used in scoring or marking the soilfor seeding or setting plants, and Fig.

's it maybe employed to A Fig. lift earth, something like a spade orshovel Stillv other illustrations hich this tool can beused might begiven, as, for example, in measuring spaces between rows ing as a gardenrule for all such purposes. Otherwise, the tool shown may be variouslydesignated according to its evident adaptability, such as earth handcultivator, soi ulverizer, weeder, and clod crusher.

structurally, the invention is comprised in a rectangular metallic plateshaped body of cast or sheet metal and 0 size of four inches in widthand six inches in length and marked with a scale of inches and fractionsthereof at its edges. Both scales are f d useful in such an implebetweenrows and for setting plants in rows and to insure economy of space andattractive appearance, and the same object is measurab y obtained bymaking the body b exactly six inches long by four inches wide, and therespective straight edges also have their special use or trated in Figs.5 and 6. position of the tool is soil can be scored to greater or lessfor planting seeds or setting plants and in 55 which a stretched linemay serve as a gui e for its use, wh' e in Fig. 6 the illustrationSpecification of Letters Patent.

, is desirable in .artificial-imoistening. asasoon as it should be therewill be no;

for sowing seeds, or setting plants and serve:

' and the labor of keeping up to the manifest advantage of f thedefinite Patented Apr. 8, 1919.

is designed to show its use in drawing loose earth up to the plantsafter the manner 0 a in length along the middle and graduated .to

along the sides of about half that length of any suitable or the tool,and maybe preferred shape, the idea being thus constructed and arrangedare particularlyserviceable in eradicating'small weeds by; scarifyingthe earth, and byworking the back and; forth it also loosens anpulverizesthe earth to as great a d h as an otherwise {properly preparedgarden Such cultivation and;pulv soil produces .a mulsh growth of plantsthat I teeth conserving moisture regardless of rains or If the .toolbe,use

weeds growing, I the garden will be proportionally lessene the growingplants.

In use for these purposes the tool is worked back and forth withoutlifting while the user stands practically erect, best plan is to worbackward so as not to tramp on the soil that has been worked. This makesgardening a pleasurable task and the work is so easy that it can e doneby a woman of little strength or even by a ch' d without tiring.

In this connection I wish especially to emphasize the advantage of thetool in the cultivation of plants with leaves or foliage that spreadslaterally near the groun as illustrated in Fig. 4, and of thischaracterI may mention beets, strawberries, cabbage an other gardenplants as wel as many kinds of flowers,

and under which weeds and grass readily germinate.

at the same time destroy the objectionable an the growth. Note, too,that this is done without tation of the ground by the teeth along theremoving the soil from about the plant as side edges of the blade andgreater agitation is done by cutting out with a hoe. along thelongitudinal center line. The side Finally, this tool is excellentlyadapted edges, of the blade can thus be used for out 40 to crushingclods, and it may be employed ting and chopping the ground close to theto strike the clods directly with the teeth plants without injuring theroots, and b in a downward blow or with the edge of the moving the bladelongitudinally between the tool for splitting and breaking the largerrows of plaiitswith the side edges of-the clods. Indeed there are manyuses to which blade running close to the plants, this will far as I knowand believe, are not permanner, the ground beingpulverized close forniedby any other single tool known to to-the plants, but at less depth than'mid this art. I way between the rows,'thus tending to make Attention isdirected to the fact that the a furrow between the rows of plants filledblade is thin and entirely flat with its side with pulverized soil.

and end cutting edges straight, in order that What I claim is:

7 all edges, both the side and end edges, can A garden tool having athin entirely flat be used forcutting the ground and pushing rectangularblade with a straight side and it toward or awayfrom the operator underend cutting edges and sharp right angled various conditions.Furthermore, the corchopping corners, a handle member attached ners ofthe blade forinshar right angles to theback of the blade in thelongitudinal for purpose of chopping the ground and center lineat anacute angle therewith, and vegetation, andeach'of the four corners canshort teeth depending from and scattered be used by turning'the handleto difl'erent over the vlower surface of the blade, said positions, itbeing noted that said handle teeth beingsliorter along the side edgesand member is attached to the back of the blade longer along thelongitudinal center line of in the longitudinal center line at an acutethe blade, permitting of freer use of the angle therewith inprder thatwhen the hanside edges, of the blade and providing only of the blade andproviding only slight agidle is turned around its axis, this brings theslightagitation of the ground by the teeth different edges and cornersof the blade into along the side edges of the-blade and greater play toadvantage. Attention is also diagitation along the longitudinal centerline. rected to the fact that the teeth are shorter Signed at Columbus,in the county of along theside edges and longer along the Franklin, andState of Ohio, this 16th day longitudinal center line'of the blade,'thusof July, 19l8.

WILLIAM ELMER BAILEY.

permitting of freer use of the side edges Copies of this patent may beobtained forfive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' l Washington, D. 0. i

